Abstract:
Process grammars are languages intended to describe business processes. Thus they are the formal base of the field of Business Process Management, which can be explained as the ability to describe, analyse and execute business processes.
Meanwhile there exists a couple of different - mostly incompatible - grammars maintained by public non-profit organizations as well as by private companies. While some of them attempt to supply a specific business area, others try to establish a general process description language, capable to specify procedures of any economic sector.
This thesis makes the attempt to create a new XML based process grammar, which may serve as an intermediate language. To achieve this, the work begins with an extensive analysis of seven different languages. After the specification by the help of a XML schema and a handful of formal rules, the new process grammar will be applied in the field of internet based payment systems.
